All the other bottlenecks

Writing code is fast now.Most teams are no longer blocked by the speed of turning specs into PRs.What I've noticed is that a lot of people, usually non-code-writing people, assumed that the speed of shipping the code was the only thing determining the speed they could grow.It wasn't. That's nothing to do with AI except that teams can now write lines of code fast enough not to be the bottleneck.But that's the funny thing about bottlenecks; you always have one. Remove the slowest part of the process and you're now limited by your previous second slowest process.Making code fast has started to reveal all the other things that stand in between your business and delivering value to your customers.Here's a few I've seen recently when talking to teams. There are plenty more and some are unique but these are a few I’ve seen enough to call them common:Working out what's worth buildingThis one is the most common. Folks can build fast which often means they do. Churning out features that land…